I love you guys. Meakea flcyclist spectra ... All of you. I'm so happy for you and proud of you. Love me some hope. Karen :)
I should add that I felt completely rotten during treatment but I continued to work full time. Treatment was very rough for me but it was doable.
I wasn't sick before doing treatment yet my docs and I believe I had Hep C for 53 years when I was diagnosed in 2008. I guess I did have bouts of being tired after a full work day but I passed it off as just being, well, tired. I am now 26 months post treatment and I feel wonderful. I'm 56, work full time, chase after 2 one year old grand daughters frequently, keep up my 1/2 acre lot, garden, lots of flowers, etc., exercise and, well...live. Life is good.
I'm doing the Tx for the third time...guess I'm a slow learner. I felt no lasting effects from the previous 2 tries. I'm in my 16th week of this round and have been undetectable at week 8 and 12...just did my 16 week draw Friday...side effects much more severe than the 2 previous txs. I'm also now in my 60s and have had C for more than 40 years..this is my last try for sure unless they find that 2 aspirins work....I know lots of people that have gone through it and only one that complains of never getting over the side effects of tx...you'll be fine.
my x wife tx 10 years ago and is doing fine....my friend up here tx last year and is feeling fine....another friend tx maybe 8 years ago and is also fine....not that everyone is but the three closest to me are having normal lives....billy
hi ..i hope this helps a little bit...
ive been thru 6 month of interferon and riba twice ...and both times almost immediately after tx ..i felt like a god.. i swear i had not post term sx and the virus was suppressed ... it was awesome.. ! i did relapse both times in 3 to 6 months and then i felt the typical hep c sides of depression and stuff .creeping back....but it was amazing how much better i felt.. i was in my 20/ and 30's and only stage 1 or 2 at the time so i was pretty healthy and i did exercise thru tx a moderate amount.. but for me ..that stuff was out of my system fast ..
this time i did incivek for 12 weeks in addition and i did get evr @ 2 weeks so i'm pretty optimistic about svr ... the incivik sx did take a while to go away .. but thats gone now..
i dont know alot about long term sides ... i only have one friend who went thru tx ... he bounced back just like me and he got svr the first time..
all the best !!!